Available at just $99, this little box will make your HD TV a center for all of your content including photos, music, videos and of course iTunes downloaded data.

A recent piece on Apple predictions for 2012 on TechnoBuffalo, raises the possibility that this year, Apple will expand beyond this first foray into the TV market and go for a more head on approach; releasing an actual Apple TV, yeah…HD screen and all.

Of course, if Apple does go ahead and come out with its own line of televisions, I’m sure the sets will be relatively minimalistic even by Apple’s standards. Expect a big blank screen, maybe a thin silver lining (or maybe an edge to edge screen), surrounding a beautiful picture quality capable machine, and of course an Apple logo somewhere on the unit. It will certainly come built in with the current Apple TV capabilities so that you will always be connected to the Internet and the iCloud.

But this raises the important question of whether Apple really needs or should go further into the TV business at all.

With falling TV prices it seems that profit margins are evaporating faster than new technologies can even be incorporated into the majority of units. Additionally, Apple knows that it will be behind in that hundreds of other TV producers have been in the business for years.

Why would Apple want to get into a market where they will have an increasingly hard time profiting from the products they make?

Because of this, I do believe that if Apple does venture into the TV business, it would only do so with some type of innovation, some technology which has been until now unseen and unheard of. This way they will be able to steal away clientele from other companies by luring them with their own TV developments.

Because of the price cut the Japanese manufacturer made back at the end of July (now you can grab a 3DS for $169.99), it will be particularly interesting to see how Nintendo performs this holiday season.

In an interesting survey done by GameSpot, they recorded that a whopping “28% of 3DS players say that 3D detracts from gameplay”! This is an astounding and frightening statistic Nintendo really needs to consider both now and before they release their next line of products. Maybe overall, the 3DS’ 3D capabilities doesn’t “suck in” gamers, as much as the above video suggests.

For the holiday season, Nintendo needs to consider downplaying the 3D capabilities of the 3DS in terms of a marketing approach. Because the 3D clearly isn’t the product’s draw, Nintendo may be better off toting the device as an undoubtedly futuristic portable gaming experience; which it clearly is.

In terms of the future, it is always crucial during the Research and Development (R&D), stages of a product, that you poll potential clientele and ask if they feel the technology incorporated enhances gameplay, as well as more basic points such as; is the technology ready for this application?

Sure, we’ll kick it off with a picture of an adorable animal, like we always do, but this time SheBytes pays tribute to a wide array of blogs that we read, draw inspiration from and consistently turn to in hours of procrastination.

They’ve made us smile, cry, think and wonder, and have inspired us to change our lives…

So below, in no particular order is a list of our all-time favorite tech and business blogs, and reasons we love them!